Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

Spring of the fifteenth year of Ningtai.

Six years have passed by unnoticed.

For the past six years, Mu An's life has been relatively uneventful. When Mu Ling'er is at home, he will accompany her to handle official business and chat with her.

The two would wander around the Qishan Road area to see its development and changes, partly as an incognito visit to observe the local conditions, and partly because they both enjoyed such leisurely strolls.

The warmth and liveliness of everyday life always make people feel closer, pulling them out of the increasingly quiet atmosphere and immersing them in the lively atmosphere that belongs to people.

A bowl of steaming hot wontons, a bowl of delicious mutton soup, or a bowl of sesame-filled glutinous rice balls...

Simple and ordinary food can also bring great comfort.

Over the years, Mu Ling'er has grown to enjoy traveling more and more, seeing the world's wonders.

Whenever Mu Ling'er goes on a long trip, Mu An will focus on cultivation, gradually expanding his Four Symbols Grotto-heaven while comprehending the Book of Creation, transforming it little by little into the Four Symbols World.

This is a very long process. Six years is a negligible amount of time. Mu An doesn't know when the evolution will be completed.

Time will pass, and success will come eventually.

If there's anything special about the Mu residence, it's probably that Ao Yun, the Dragon King from Linjiang, comes over every month.

Every time Ao Yun came to the Mu residence, she would stay there for several days. As they spent more time together, the relationship between Ao Yun and Mu Ling'er grew stronger.

Although they weren't related by blood, they were still considered Mu Ling'er's friends.

According to Ao Yun herself, she treated the Mu residence as her home, and she spent more time there than in the Dragon Palace in Linjiang.

From Mu An and Mu Ling'er's perspective, Ao Yun spent most of her time doing nothing, and at most spent five or six days a month at the Mu residence.

As for why such a cognitive bias would occur, Mu Ling'er also asked Ao Yun.

Ao Yun scratched the dragon's horns and answered with complete composure.

She usually sleeps for three to five months at a time, so for her to come once a month like this is already a sign that she values ​​them a lot.

Mu Ling'er and Mu An both chuckled at this.

Having lived for over a thousand years, Ao Yun was different from them, and her perception of the length of time was quite skewed.

The future Mu An will probably be the same, but in the present, Mu An's concept of time is relatively normal, not much different from Mu Ling'er's, except that she doesn't care much about the passage of time.

Regardless, Ao Yun and Mu An's relationship has indeed become much closer, and Mu An is happy to see this happen.

Having another true dragon to protect Mu Ling'er and Qishan Dao is ultimately a good thing.

In the past few years, there have been a few times when Mu Ling'er went on long trips, and Ao Yun went with her. With Ao Yun leading the way, the journey was naturally much faster, and Mu Ling'er's trips became shorter and shorter, which also made Mu An's life much easier.

What's rather strange is that ever since the two of them went on a long trip together, Ao Yun has been acting somewhat uneasy in front of Mu An, as if she's hiding some secret.

Despite being a true dragon who has lived for thousands of years, Ao Yun often appears surprisingly simple and straightforward, unlike humans who are often complex and calculating.

Whenever Ao Yun acted strangely, Mu Ling'er would take the initiative to cover for her and smooth things over.

Mu An saw it all, but pretended not to know anything.

For Mu An, finding out what happened was not difficult; with a little deduction, the secrets of heaven would reveal the answer.

However, Mu An never intended to pry into Mu Ling'er's little secrets, whether it was when Mu Ling'er was a child or now.

Everyone has the right to have their own little secrets, especially since this little secret might be a surprise prepared for him/her.

Although we don't know exactly what Mu Ling'er prepared, it was something she had carefully prepared, so there was no reason for it to be disappointing.

Compared to the calm and uneventful situation within the Mu family mansion, the changes in Qishan Road were much more significant.

About a year ago, one day, Mu Ling'er approached Mu An with a smile and placed a brand new map in front of him.

Thanks to the combined efforts of countless self-propelled boundary markers, the area of ​​Qishan Road has expanded several times over compared to its initial state.

Currently, Qishan Road not only encompasses the entire territory of Lingzhou, but also half of the lands of Jiangzhou in the east, Yongzhou in the west, and Jiaozhou in the north belong to Qishan Road.

Boundary markers are like animals with legs; they can run incredibly fast.

If you're not careful, the villages on the border can inexplicably become part of the Qishan Road.

Mu An had also asked, and after confirming that it wasn't their people who moved the boundary marker, he simply accepted the claim that the boundary marker could move on its own.

He had no intention of vying for the throne, but he also wouldn't make things difficult for the people who had come to him on their own initiative.

The people have worked so hard, so they've come in. Qishan Dao can support these people now.

Over the decades, the grain crops in Qishan Road have been continuously improved, and agricultural techniques have also developed rapidly.

Mu An now knows that this world has extremely strict restrictions on the development of technology, but few restrictions on the application of cultivation techniques to daily life.

After some research, Mu An improved the rice varieties, which greatly increased grain yield.

Moreover, he also developed some talisman technology and inscription applications, which greatly facilitated daily life.

It's a bit of a pity that these convenient techniques require a martial artist's internal energy to activate.

Alternatively, it may use primordial stones, formed from primordial energy, as a driving force to propel it.

Both the former and the latter have extremely high requirements.

Although various technologies have emerged, they have never been able to become widespread and can only be applied on a small scale.

Mu An had also considered popularizing martial arts in Qishan Road, but after some calculations, he gave up on this unrealistic idea.

Martial arts training relies too much on aptitude and consumes too many resources. The energy needed for cultivation cannot be created out of thin air, and the scarcity of resources means that martial artists are only a minority.

Moreover, in Mu An's calculations, even if it were just about promoting martial arts and letting everyone choose whether or not to practice, the entire Qishan Dao would be thrown into complete chaos.

With a sharp weapon in one's heart, the desire to kill arises spontaneously.

This statement is never a joke. The more people practice martial arts, the worse the security in Qishan Road will become. Eventually, it will get out of control, causing order to disappear and chaos to become the norm.

Everyone felt that the world was unfair, that God was unfair, and that their fate was in their own hands, not in the hands of Heaven. Thus, Qishan Dao was truly doomed.

On the contrary, the most stable state is one where ordinary people with very little difference between each other make up the majority, and most people gradually accept their ordinariness as they grow up.

Geniuses are ultimately few and far between; the vast majority of people are ordinary, and a stable life is what they need most.

Qishandao has done a very good job in this regard.

Now, the number of people living in the Qishan region has reached 80 million.

The entire Qishan Road not only has Qing'an Prefecture as its main city, but also six large cities and one hundred and four small cities, with trade and commerce covering the entire Daqi.

The caravans that traveled far and wide reached as far east as the coast of the East China Sea, as far north as the snowy plains of the North, as far west as the desolate deserts of the West, and as far south as the mountains of a million miles, becoming truly enormous creatures.